Summary

He will rise to greatness as you stand in his shadow. Yours will be the last face he sees.

Arthur has lived and died twenty-one times. Merlin has been there for all of his lives and deaths, he had been walking the earth since their first one. Arthur only remembers his current life. Merlin remembers everything.

This is the twenty-second life. Things are going a bit differently. Arthur is American for one, but that really is the least of this life's strangeness.

Summary

Sometimes Merlin's life feels like someone's idea of a hilarious joke. A run in with a fertility god and the wrong sort of berries does not improve his situation. But if he can bring himself to trust Arthur, maybe everything will work out after all.